012: Why today is the best day to start your sobriety and quit drinking alcohol
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Alcoholism is a progressive disease and Paul, with 34 years of sobriety explains how he has made it this long with out a drink. Below are the key points Paul discusses.
Drinking destroys the intelligence
After 34 years is still taking it one day at a time
Drinking destroys in this order: Spiritual, Mind then body. Healing is in reverse order
This disease is beautiful (the solution, continuing to be of service to the community and others)
ISM – incredibly short memory
Wants to be reminded on a daily basis that is doesn’t get any better
Gets gooder and gooder and gooder
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery Elevator episode 12. |
| 0:02.2 | When you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, |
| 0:05.2 | that's when you will come to A. |
| 0:08.0 | But you gotta reach your bottom. Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:20.0 | According to my Recovery Elev elevator sobriety tracker |
| 0:23.0 | available on iPhone and Android, I have been sober for eight months, |
| 0:27.0 | two days, 12 hours and 56 seconds, |
| 0:31.0 | which I am so proud of every moment and so happy to be sober with you guys today. |
| 0:36.6 | On today's podcast, you guys are in luck. I basically have the Gandolf of sobriety. His name is Paul. He's got 34 years of sobriety. But unlike the Gandolf in the Lord of |
| 0:48.9 | Rings films, who's standing on top of the rock ledge with the staff saying, |
| 0:52.5 | thou shall not pass? |
| 0:54.4 | This Gandolf Paul, he's got his hand open, |
| 0:57.6 | reaching out to you. |
| 0:59.2 | He's saying, take my hand, thou shall pass. |
| 1:03.0 | I will help you in recovery and be there every step of the way |
| 1:06.0 | if you would like. |
| 1:07.2 | And that's the Paul, great name by the way, |
| 1:09.7 | on the podcast with us today. |
| 1:11.4 | That's how I met Paul. |
| 1:12.4 | I went to an AA meeting about a year and a half ago. |
| 1:14.8 | I had a hooded sweatshirt on. My hat was down. I basically crawled under the door. My |
| 1:20.2 | butt was whooped. I was right in the middle of this battle with alcoholism. |
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